The following was sent to my by a relative who lives in Lakewood, WA. This is a crime that should not go unpunished. I hope the perpetrator is caught and is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.



I live in Lakewood, WA. This morning, four of our community's finest were shot dead while having coffee in a small coffee shop. A guy just walks in and blows em all away. One female and three male police officers from our local police precincts.

No one else was targeted, no one else was hurt. Yet!

Is it a knee jerk reaction to want to arm myself against those who would harm me and mine? My wife Nancy, says I can't do it. She says I'm just on old fool who would probably end up shooting myself. And she's probably right.

If I had been there, I try to convince myself that I would have thrown myself at the perpetrator, with no thought of what might have happened to me. But I wasn't, and that decision did not have to be made.

I remember the 13 who just died at Ft Hood, and I wonder how that son-of-a-bitch got so many rounds off in that place. I remember the policeman in North Seattle who just got blown away in his cruiser just a week or so ago.

There are so many to remember, I can't keep up with it all. So where's it all going? Where is it taking us? What can we do?

I am praying, and I am waiting for some answers. Anybody got any ideas?



I see a time where the normal citizen will have hidden guns in their houses because of this sort of thing. I will even go so far as to say they will carry them in their cars in hidden compartments. The normal citizen is getting fed up and will start fighting back. I know this might make it harder for the police. I just hope that the normal citizen doesn't get carried away and shot the wrong persons. The cops have enough troubles with the criminals and don't need any problems from the normal citizen.

The shooting of the 4 cops is a terrible thing and should not be tolerated.